Summary of SSSD Evaluation Committee Meeting
October 10, 2012
4-5:30 p.m.
Present at the meeting were Niki Struble, Marty Lamansky, Lisa Derning, Naomi Kline, Eliza Yarborough, Meghan Alexander, Jenny Krentz, Tracy Stoddard, Colby Ricci, Shannon Lukens, Heidi Chapman-Hoy
The meeting began with a general discussion and grounding on what a cross walk involves and why it was necessary for this process. There was an explanation that the committee was obligated to cross walk any potential evaluation tool/rubric with the current Colorado Teaching Standards.
The group decided that as a preliminary step to going into the specifics of the rubrics and the standards there should be general comment and discussion about the two rubrics.
Comments about the two rubrics included:
The current SSSD rubric does not line up with current CDE standards.
As far as levels the advanced category on the SSSD rubric is the baseline for the CDE rubric.
Standard 1 is not addressed at all with the SSSD rubric.
CDE is a lot easier rubric to use one to set professional goals.
The CDE rubric seems to make more logical sense in terms of how you move from one performance level to the next.
You can be more self directed with the CDE system.
The CDE rubric is a self-reflection tool and a better tool.
SSSD is very general CDE one gives us more of a scope and sequence.
CDE system is much more specific and teachers will understand, in a more detailed manner, what their expectations are.
Teachers will need to document better.
Like the checklist for every category on the CDE rubric.
Can't observe all that is one the CDE rubric in one lesson.
There is an extensive goal setting goal.
CDE one had more emphasis on student performance...brings interaction with students to a higher level. This is a big difference with the SSSD.
Liked some of the language in the SSSD one.
The CDE rubric is forcing us to be more global, collaborative, and brings in a multi-cultural piece even at the partially proficiency level. It articulates high expectations for all teachers.
After this discussion the group agreed that the CDE rubric was the best option and that the cross-walk was not needed
The committee members still had several questions about the rubric. It was pointed out that there is a scoring training for both the principal and the teacher rubric that is being sponsored by BOCES on November 13th at CMC. Several members of the committee will be attending that training.
As a preparation step for the training the committee started the process of going through the rubric and posed questions about it that they would like to get clarified through the training.
The following questions were then posed:
What is an expert and how is it defined?
What are the indicators of expertise?
How do teachers show their knowledge in literacy and Math?
How do you measure the metric on alignment if the district's organized plan of instruction is incomplete?
When there are two checkboxes is it both or either?
What are some examples of how the literacy and math connections?
How are the expectations for age, grade, and ability level determined?
How does this align with the timeline for the testing data and are there going to be adjustments in these timelines?
Can the timeline for evaluation change based on the timelines for testing data?
When the elements are so specific how do you evaluate the specialists?
Where are the basics of communication of professionalism addressed in this system?
Is there a set number of connections that have to be made?
One positive is that this new system will require the teachers to be more holistic in their teaching.
The group only was able to go through standard I of V. At this point we were out of time as a committee. The committee was given the following homework:
If the committee member is going to be attending the training on November 13th review the rest of the CDE rubric and come to the training with questions that you want to ask.
If the committee member is not going to be attending the training they should send their questions about the rubric to Marty no later than November 5th.
It was also suggested that before the next meeting that members go onto the CDE website and look at the short training videos about the process and the rubric. The videos can be found at: http://www.cde.state.co.us/EducatorEffectiveness/Videos.asp
There are four videos lasting a total time of 21 minutes.
The next committee meeting will be held at the district office on Wednesday, November 14th from 4 to 5:30 p.m.
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